Emperor Napoleon III, Emperor of France (1808-1873)
Staffordshire Pottery
Category
Ceramics
Date
1854
Materials
Earthenware
Measurements
400 mm (H)
Place of origin
Staffordshire
Order this imageCollection
Attingham Park, Shropshire
NT 341571
Summary
Ceramic, Staffordshire, Emperor Napoleon III, Emperor of France (1808-1873), Staffordshire Pottery. Full-length Staffordshire figure of Napoleon III, sitting in cocked hat and uniform. Right arm on a cannon.
Provenance
part of collection built up by Thomas Balston (d.1967). He wrote about the collection in Staffordshire Portrait Figures of the Victorian Age, 1958.
Marks and inscriptions
NAPOLEON (raised caps.)
Makers and roles
Staffordshire Pottery, potter